Ethernet Alliance Gains Support

Aug. 7, 2000

The 10-Gbit Ethernet Alliance (10GEA) has gained more support with the joining of Alactritech Inc., San Jose, Calif., a leading manufacturer of network processors. Alactritech has developed a session-layer interface card (SLIC) technology with scalability that reaches gigabit data rates and beyond. This technology will help shape the 10GEA's position as an advocate for the 10-Gbit Ethernet standard.

SLIC technology is key to delivering 10-Gbit Ethernet performance. It will aid in consolidating the IEEE 802.3ae committee's stand on the Ethernet frame format, including a maximum frame size of 1500 bytes.

The 10GEA was organized to facilitate and accelerate the introduction of 10-Gbit Ethernet into the networking market. Targets include local-, metropolitan-, and wide-area networks (LANs, MANs, and WANs). Among the group's members are networking companies like 3Com, Cisco Systems, Extreme Networks, Intel, Nortel Networks, Sun Microsystems, and World Wide Packets. More information about 10GEA can be obtained by visiting its web site at www.10gea.org.

About the Author

Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.